One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.
“The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...”
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
“We are asleep until we fall in Love!”
“Everything I know, I know because of love.”
“He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.”
“There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.”
“Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but t...”
“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.”
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are a...”
“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”
“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”
“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”